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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Another lesser verdict

Here is a Topeka Capital-Journal article reporting about Wendell Betts obtaining verdicts on lesser included offenses for his client. Mr. Smith was charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and a count of agg robbery, but the jury acquitted on agg robbery and convicted of two counts of attempted second-degree and a count of attempted voluntary manslaughter.